Posted 04/20/2012
I’ve got one question for President Obama: What is it going to take for you to put a stop to Shell’s plans for Arctic Ocean drilling this summer? The reasons not to drill just keep mounting — and the reasons to drill? Well, there seems to be just one, and I can’t say it in politically correct company. I can give you a hint: Republican rhetoric and the 2012 presidential election.
Just yesterday, the National Oil Spill Commission that you appointed after the Deepwater Horizon disaster came out with a report card that noted that in the Arctic, there remain “many unanswered questions and much work to be done.” Specifically, this group of esteemed experts raised concerns about the fact that there remains no proven method to clean up an oil spill in the Arctic’s extreme conditions.